Process of making felt boots



(Speoimens.)

H, HYSON.

PROCESS OF MAKING FELT BOOTS.

No. 341,659. Patented May 11, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY HYSON, OF AllIESBUBY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE MER-INO SHOE COMPANY, OF KENNEBUNK, MAINE.

PROCESS OF MAKING FELT BOOTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,659, dated May 11, 1886.

Application filed March 8, 1886. Serial No. 104,420. (Specimens) To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HYsoN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Aincsbury, in the county of Essex and State 5 of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Making Felt Boots; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the let ters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

[ This invention relates to improvements in felt boots, and more especially to the improving of the devices set forth in United States Patents No. 287,807, of November 6, 1883, and

No. 306,747, of October 21, 1884, and referonce is made to said patents for a complete understanding of the present invention.

In the Patent No. 287,807 is set forth an article of footwear made of a combined felt and woven or knit fabric, the latter being 'in the form of a stocking. This fabric is to be incorporated on the outside or the inside of the felt, or it may be incorporated between two layers of felt. It is to produce the last article-viz., foot-wear composed of two layo ers of felt with a textile fabric between them that the present invention is designed; and

the said present invention is a method which is an improvement on that set forth in Patent No. 306,747, whereby is obtained the desired 5 article.

In the annexed drawings, Figures 1 and 2 represent the felt bat in different stages, and the same as in Figs. 1 and 2 of Patent No. 306,747. Fig. 3 represents two bats, such as 0 in Fig. 2, with a piece of textile fabric between them. Fig. 4 is a View of an incomplete boot, and Fig. 5 a view of the completed article.

In carrying out this process I make the bat in Fig. 1, and partially harden it, as in Fig. 2, in manner as fully set forth in Patent No. 306,747. I then cut out a piece of textile material of the size and shape of the bat, but a little smaller, as shown at A, Fig. 3. This piece A is placed between the bats B B, and

then the two bats with the piece between are manipulated, as fully set forth in United States Patent No. 306,747, first, as shown in Fig. 4., being given the requisite shape for a boot, and then having the foot finished. all in the wellknown way, and then the article is fulled, lasted, &e., producing the article in Fig. 5.

Instead of using the process stated in Patent No. 306,747, I may make the bat in any way, as there are many well known ways, and I need not partially harden it, but may unite the three pieces together at the first hardening; but then an inlayer would have to be used. Also, the two bats need not be of the same thickness, as I can arrange them so that the textile material will come at any place; also, by using a piece of textile fabric, which strengthens the article, the layers of fiber of the two bats need not necessarily cross each other.

Instead of using a piece of textile material the whole length of the article, it need only be large enough to cover any special partsuch as the ankle-without varying my inven tion, which is broadly the process of strengthening such articles by incorporating a piece of textile material in the manner described.

Having described my invention, what I claim, is

As an improvement in the method of forming foot-wear made of combined felt and textile material, the process which consists in taking two felt bats and placing between them a piece of textile material, all three adapted to the article to be made, hardening the three together, giving them the proper shape, and uniting the meeting edges, then fulling, lasting, &c., all as set forth.

In testimony whereofI affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- HENRY HYSON.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE H. BRIGos, CHAS. H. OURRIER. 

